Impact water-wheel



UNITEDv STATES vPnrniwr Ottica.

I-lIRAM MORRIS, ELIJAH K. GORTON, AND EDVARD SAEGER, OF ORAVV- `FORD COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPACT WATER-WHEEL.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 13,685, dated October 16, 1855.

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, HIRAM MORRIS, ELI- JAH K. GoRToN, and EDWARD SAEGER, of the county of Crawford, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Tater- \Vheel; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, and to theletters of reference marked thereon.

To enable others to understand and make use of our invention, we will proceed to describe its construction and operation, reference being had to the drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective drawing of our water-wheel, with all its parts adjusted in working order.

The wheel is constructed in two separate rims, the lower one shown at Fig. 2 and the upper one shown at Fig. 3. The wheel is supported on its shaft A, Fig. l, by means of a spider B, Fig. 3, which is fastened by screwbolts to the upper rim O, which spider is additionally supported by braces, one end hooking into eyes on the arm of the spider and the other end passing through eyes ina band on the shaft of the wheel, with a nut and screw, as seen at D D, Fig.` 4. In the rims of the wheel are made circular grooves to receive the buckets, as seen at l 2 3 4, Fig. 2. The grooves in both rims correspond with each other.

The buckets of the Wheel are of any circle required by the size of the wheel and the number of buckets desired, the inside end turning in a shorter circle, as shown at E, Fig. 5. On the edges of the buckets a circular flange projects, as shown at F G, which ts into the circular grooves l 2 3 4, Fig. 2, in the rims of the wheel. Passing through the buckets in a perpendicular direction is a slot II, Fig. 5. Through this slot a stud or bolt is passed, by which means the rims of the wheel are firmly bolted together, as seen at II, Fig. 4, permitting, however, the buckets to slide in and out and by this means opening and closing t-he issues at any desired size. The buckets are kept in the position desired by means of a latch, as seen at 1 2 3 4 5 6 7, Fig. 1. This latch drops into any one of several catches at every bucket, as shown at 1, Fig. 1, there being a latch and corresponding catches at every bucket.

Fig. 6 is the wheel-bed, which is made convex, as shown at R R, Fig 4. Around this bed is an iron rim A A, which is made true, so as to tit the inner circumference of the lower rim of the wheel to prevent the water being discharged between the bed and the wheel. In the center of this bed is our adjustingbox, a top view of which is shown in Fig. 6 and a side or sectional view at Fig. 4, where the wheel-bed is divided perpendicularly, in order better to show its conveXity and the construction of the adj Listing-box.

B, Fig. G, is the core-plate of the boX, in the center of which is a steel point, on which the shaft of the wheel runs, as seen at L, Fig. 4.

l 2 3 4, Fig. 6, are screw-bolts which pass through the core-plate B, the end resting on the bed-plate of the box D D, which is ot' iron, by which means the core-plate is lowered and raised, which lowers and raises the wheel. 5 6 7 8 are also screw-bolts which screw into the edges of the core plate, the heads of these bolts resting against the inner rim of the bed-plate D D, by which means the wheel is adjusted laterally.

Fig. 7 is a packing-rim or decking to the wheel, which is placed over the wheel and is made concave on its upper surface. This decking is placed on the inside of the circular fiume, Fig. 1, as seen at O, and rests upon its bottom so close to the wheel that when the wheel is adjusted to it by means of the adjusting-box it prevents the water being discharged around its` upper surface. The studs or bolts which pass through the buckets to fasten the rims of the Wheel t0- gether have a shoulder on each end, by which means the rims are iirmly bolted together and leave the buckets room to move freely in the grooves of the rim.

This wheel has no bottom and is supported wholly by the spider B, Fig. 3, and the braces D D, Fig. 4. By this arrangement we get rid of much of the weight of the water, which would otherwise rest upon it.

Vhat we claimas our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The buckets, so constructed as to be adjusted and movable, to open and close the issues as may be desired by means of the cirdecki1'1g,ywith the adjusting-box constructed cular grooves in the rims of the Wheel, and in the manner described.

anges on the buckets` and the studs and HIRAM MORRIS. 4 bolts passing through the buckets, and the ELIJAH K. GORTON. fastening the buckets in any desired position EDXVD. SAEGER. by means of a latch and catch, in the manner NTitnesscs: described. A. B. RICHMOND,

2. A circular concave packing-ring andA SAMUEL COLE, Jr. 

